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The Good Robot — 118 episodes

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The Future of Data Centers and Digital Sovereignty with Friederike von Franque

2

The Revolutionary Microscopes Powering Global Tech Equality with Richard Bowman

3

Designers: Let's Create Abolitionist and Black Liberatory Futures! with Terresa Hardaway

4

Discovering the Universe through Knitting with Elisabetta Matsumoto

5

Bonus Episode: The Internet's First Influencer, Tila Tequila, with Lisa Nakamura

6

The Inattention Economy: Race, Gender, and Technology with Lisa Nakamura

7

Race and Orientalism in E-Gaming with Tara Fickle

8

The Role of Designers in AI Ethics with Tomasz Hollanek

9

What Makes a Drone “Good”? with Beryl Pong

10

The Vulnerabilities of Drone Warfare with Amy Gaeta

11

AI Needs Fat Liberation! with Aisha Sobey

12

Can Programming Languages be Feminist? with Felienne Hermans

13

Rethinking 'Creepy' Technology with Nassim Parvin and Neda Atanasoski

14

Symbiosis From Bacteria to AI with N. Katherine Hayles

15

Transhumanist Fantasies with Alexander Thomas

16

Data Bodies and Arab Futurisms with Laila Shereen Sakr

17

Managing the Body through Food Law and Policy with Kyla Wazana Tompkins

18

Re-imagining Voice Assistants with Stina Hasse Jørgensen and Frederik Juutilainen

19

Critiquing Tech through Comedy with Laura Allcorn

20

Surfing the Web in Sync with the Sun with Anne Pasek

21

Using Feminist Chatbots to Fight Trolls With Sarah Ciston

22

Resisting Mental Health Ward Surveillance with Stop Oxevision

23

Lithium Extraction in the Atacama with Sebastián Lehuedé

24

Machine Vision with Jill Walker Rettberg

25

Art, Technology and Justice with Yasmine Boudiaf

26

Gut Feminism and Feminist Approaches to Biology with Elizabeth Wilson

27

Janneke Parrish on Worker Solidarity and Why Tech Unions Matter

28

Hot Take: Does AI Know How You Feel?

29

The EU AI Act Part 2, with Amba Kak and Sarah Myers West from AI NOW

30

The EU AI Act Part 1, with Caterina and Daniel from Access Now

31

What on Earth Is Ethical Maths? with Maurice Chiodo

32

Can Technology Save us from Housework? with Helen Hester

33

Poisoning AI and Silencing Alexa with Heather Zheng

34

Gamergate, Harassment, and Feminist Design with Caroline Sinders

35

The curse of online beauty culture with Ellen Atlanta

36

Needlework and History's Hidden Technologies with Isabella Rosner

37

How China surveils Uyghur Muslims with Darren Byler

38

The Racial History of Dermatology with Thuy Linh Tu

39

Hot Take: The Good Robot BOOK!

40

The 'AI Mirror' with Shannon Vallor

41

Why You Shouldn't Believe the AI Hype with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

42

Why the Stories We Tell About AI Matter with Melissa Heikkilä

43

Rethinking Large Language Models (LLMs) with Rebecca Woods

44

Hot Take: Happy Holidays & a new book from Eleanor!

45

Rewriting Wikipedia with Jess Wade

46

Hot Take: Can you own your data?

47

Digital Authoritarianism and Press Freedom with Arzu Geybulla

48

Technology, psychedelics and healing with K Allado-McDowell

49

Good corporations, AI ethics and value pluralism with Giada Pistilli

50

Facial Recognition and Surveillance in Palestine with Matt Mahmoudi

51

Hot Take: Fighting Fears and Fantasies of East Asia (and AI)

52

Generative AI, Creativity, and what AI means for the Music Industry with Hayleigh Bosher

53

Why Sexism, Racism and Ableism in Tech are 'More than a Glitch' with Meredith Broussard

54

Indigenous Sciences, Technologies, and Science Fiction with Grace Dillon

55

Unexpected History of Computing with Mar Hicks

56

Hot Take: Twitter is to X as Barbie is to Ken

57

Buddhist Approaches to Machine Consciousness with Peter Hershock

58

Hot Take: Detecting Sexuality with AI is Fake Science

59

Worker Surveillance and the US Trucking Industry with Karen Levy

60

Hot Take: Can AI De-Bias Hiring?

61

Art, Digital Archives and Activism with Ofri Cnaani

62

Hot Take: Most AI Scientists in Films Suck

63

Full Stack Feminism and the Digital Humanities with Caroline Bassett and Sharon Webb

64

Hot Take: The Future of Life's Call for a Pause on 'Giant AI' - Doomsday or Distraction?

65

Feminism, Disability, and the Politics of Technology with Laura Forlano

66

The Good Robot LIVE! from Berlin

67

The Politics of Captions with Louise Hickman

68

Science Fiction in Translation with Regina Kanyu Wang and Emily Jin

69

AI Policy Between the UK and Africa with Bridget Boakye

70

Voice Recognition Technologies and Border Control with Pedro Oliviera

71

Big Tech's Colonial Takeover with Michael Kwet

72

Changing Computing Cultures with Abeba Birhane

73

Queer Approaches to AI and Computing with Arjun Subramonian

74

Creating Just Language Technologies with Su Lin Blodgett

75

Transhumanism and Existential Risk with Josh Schuster and Derek Woods

76

The Feedback Loop between Tech Innovation and Science Fiction with Chen Qiufan

77

The Exorcism of Emotion in Rational Science (and AI) with Lorraine Daston

78

Queer Data with Kevin Guyan

79

Data Activism Against Everyday Racism with Mónica Moreno Figueroa and Ella McPherson

80

Why Machine Learning is Political with Louise Amoore

81

Reproductive Technologies and Feminist Research Ethics with Sarah Franklin

82

Anti-Asian Racism across Time and Space with Michelle N. Huang

83

Understanding Tech Ethics from the Ground Up with Sareeta Amrute

84

Techno-Feminisms and Why Nature is Far Stranger Than We Think with Sophie Lewis

85

AI Colonialism and Changing the Stories We Tell About Tech with Karen Hao

86

Large Language Models and Misogyny in Tech with Margaret Mitchell

87

Machine Enlightenment with Soraj Hongladarom

88

Avoiding Universalism and 'Silver Bullets' in Tech Design with Os Keyes

89

Vague AI Ethics Principles and why Automatic Gender Recognition is Nonsense with Alex Hanna

90

Engineers, Values, and Giving the Public a Voice with Virginia Dignum

91

Debunking Myths in Technology: Intelligence, Survival, Sexuality with Blaise Agüera y Arcas

92

Drone Warfare and Undoing Everyday Militarism with Kate Chandler

93

'Craptions', Assistive Technologies, and the Real Meaning of Accessible Technology with Meryl Alper

94

Facebook ‘Friendship’ and Predicting the Future with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

95

Gender, Security, and Technology with Leonie Tanczer

96

Indigenous Work in AI with Jason Edward Lewis

97

Afrofeminist Approaches to AI Governance and Policy with Neema Iyer

98

Repurposing an ATM, Joy and Decolonial Politics in Puerto Rico with Frances Negron-Mutaner

99

The Myth of Autonomy with Maya Indira Ganesh

100

Slowing Down and Teaching AI Ethics with Jess Smith

101

India’s Biometric Identification System, Representation and Governance with Ranjit Singh

102

AI, Religious Studies, and Liberation Theology with Dylan Doyle-Burke

103

Gender, Technology, and Racial Embodiment with Anne Anlin Cheng

104

Rosi Braidotti: Bonus Episode!

105

Posthuman Knowledge and Technology with Rosi Braidotti

106

Privacy, Surveillance and Civil Rights with Jennifer Lee

107

AI, Disability, and Accessibility with Cynthia Bennett

108

Decolonising AI Narratives with Kanta Dihal

109

AI, Racial Capitalism, and Labour with Neda Atanasoski

110

Datasets for African Languages with David Adelani

111

Tech, Resistance, and Invention with Jack Halberstam

112

How Youth Activism is Shaking Up AI with Sneha Revanur

113

Data Feminism with Catherine D'Ignazio

114

Feminist App Design with Priya Goswami

115

Buddhism and AI Ethics with The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi

116

Countering Online Sex Abuse with Anita Williams

117

Feminism, Embodied Cognition and AI Regulation with N. Katherine Hayles

118

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